The AMPERE Newsletter

The AMPERE Newsletter appears quarterly and covers short topical articles written by experts in the field. Typically it also includes a profile, conference reports, advertisements, a calendar of events and news items on various aspects of radio frequency and microwave energy usage in the ISM frequency band, covering topics broadly from 1 MHz to 30 GHz, although higher frequencies have also been covered. It also highlights on promising new research developments to emanate from academe and industry.

Issue 47 Issue 47, published in December 2005, contains the following articles and reports. Editor's Comment . Zenith etch microwave plasma for exhaust management in the semiconductor industry. Microwave power research activities in Australia. Microwaves down under! News and Events.

Editor's Comment

I am delighted to have invited Dr Marilena Radoiu to describe BOC’s Zenith Etch Microwave Plasma System which is the world’s first integrated microwave plasma and wet scrubber system. This is developed at BOC’s Exhaust Management Systems Division, and offers the highest energy transfer from the plasma to the gas to be abated.

In this issue we also have two invited articles of microwave developments from Down Under. In the first, Professor Nguyen Tran, describes recent microwave power activities in Australia and focuses on timber modification, nuclear waste drying, plasma sterilization and deposition and plasma ignition. It is pleasing to see that
Nguyen concentrates primarily on projects which attract industrial funding as this demonstrates the acceptance of our techniques by industry at large. This essentially bridges science to applications which is what Bernie Krieger and others have advocated long ago.

The other news from Down Under focuses on a new pasteurisation rig supplied to the USA by Keam Holdem the New Zealand based company. The tunnel treats discrete barrier-packed ready-to-eat food products and features non-contact temperature measurement to automatically control the generator power. A particular feature of microwave heating, states Rick Keam, founder of the company, is the ability to heat a product that is fully enclosed in a plastic airtight barrier package.

Ricky Metaxas
St John's College
Cambridge CB2 1TP, England, UK

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 46, October 2005 , Issue 45, June 2005 , Issue 44, March 2005 , Issue 43, December 2004 , Issue 42, October 2004 , Issue 41, June 2004 , Issue 40, March 2004 , Issue 39, October 2003 , Issue 38, October 2003 , Issue 37, June 2003 , Issue 36, March 2003 , Issue 35, December 2002 , Issue 34, October 2002 , Issue 33, June 2002 , Issue 32, March 2002 , Issue 31, December 2001 , Issue 30, October 2001 , Issue 29, June 2001 , Issue 28, April 2001 , Issue 27, January 2001 , Issue 26, October 2000 , Issue 25, July 2000 , Issue 24, April 2000.